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Volume 8, Issue 3 November 30, 2018

Suicide Prevention 1

BRAIN BUSTERS 3

Community News 4

BOOSTERS 5

BOOK REVIEW 6

Kelso/PAX 7

CALENDAR 8

Inside this issue:

Special points of

interest:

Planets and Spirit Week! -Pg. 2

Food Bank and Helping Hands– Pg. 4

Pops with Pop! Pg. 5

Choir, Marimba’s & Ukes!- Pg. 6

Ozobots! - Pg. 7

Maze Answers -Pg. 8

Suicide Prevention

This past month there was a very special walk that

happened in Clarkston. It was called, “Bridge the Gap”. This

is the 3rd year of the annual walk now! The organizers are

trying to bridge the gap between suicide and awareness

through education and to end the shame surrounding sui-

cide and getting people more aware to help prevent sui-

cide.

Over a 100 people, including me, was there. Our very

own Mrs. Bree Reiner, Speech/Language Pathologist here at

Grantham, was there and is involved with the event &

awareness program. Almost everyone who attended the

walk are somehow related to suicide in some personal way.

Sometimes sad is ok. Sometimes we lose family or

friends and it is ok to be sad. There is always an awkward

moment that you might not want to talk about. Or maybe

it’s you talking to someone about how you feel. It’s better to

ask than stay quiet, it can save a life or yours. Our communi-

ty has many people you can talk to, in our schools, Counsel-

ing offices, or in the privacy of your homes. And there is a

hotline you can contact :

National Suicide Prevention

Lifelines: 800-273-8255 Suicide Lifeline

| 866-833-6546 Teen Link | Lifeline Crisis

Chat | Lifeline Website | 741741 Crisis Text

Line Remember:

Let’s Bridge the Gap on suicide

prevention and awareness!

Take care of yourself!

This is Jetta J. signing off.

Spirit Week The 19th through the 21st was spirit week for Grantham.

We celebrated by having a PJ Day, Miss-match Day, and

Spirit Day (red and black). The teachers enjoy these days too

by dressing up! We also raised money and brought in a ton

of food to donate to our local food bank. In a grand total of

and I am proud to say, we made $203.00 and 201 pounds of

food!! Thank you for all of the support from the Grantham

Boosters & you Grizzlies!

This is Jetta J. signing off TaTa4now!

P A G E 2

By Jetta J. & Francesca St.M. The three days before Thanksgiving our whole school did a STEAM study on Planets! Each class studied about a cho-sen planet, we got to learn about the constellations and make a star chart of a constellation. We learned about the moons lunar cycle and used Oreo cookies to demonstrate it! Each class also did an art project using chalk to draw the planet we studied in our classroom! We could even

dip the chalk into water to look more paint like if we wanted to! Then on the 1/2 day we all came to-gether in the gym for a student led assembly to present our facts on the planets we studied. All our planet art was put up in order of the solar system it was fabulous! Here are some pictures!

V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 3 Planets and Spirit Week!

BY Gavin F. / Hazel A. Q: What often falls in the winter but never gets hurt? A: Snow

Q: What food do you get when you cross Frosty with a wolf? A: A brrrr-grrr.

Q: What do snowmen eat for breakfast? A: Frosted Flakes.

Q: How does a penguin build a house? A: Igloos it together.

Q: What is Frosty the Snowman’s favorite play in hockey? A: Icing.

Q: Why are elves so cold at Christmas? A: Because it’s in Decembrrrrr.

Q: What do you call a greedy elf? A: Elfish

Q. What is green, white, and red all over? A. A sunburned elf.

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Aaron. Aaron who? Aaron you having more turkey?

Q: When asked how he was feeling, what did the pumpkin say? A: I’m vine, thanks for asking.

Q: Why was Cinderella not very good at softball? A: Because her coach was a pumpkin.

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 3 Brain Busters

P A G E 4 V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 3

Community News By Angela D.

Food Bank Donations!

We have an amazing school here I must say so myself! This last month the students and staff participated in a canned food collection compe-tition and had fun doing it too! In order to par-ticipate in our 3 days of Spirit Week, where we dressed up, we had to either bring a can of food or more OR pay up in quarters each day! We had a PJ Day, Mismatched Day, and a Red-n-Black Spirit Day! We collected 201 pounds in canned food and $103.00 and then the Gran-tham Boosters matched the cash with $100.00! Here are some pictures of the donation to the Asotin County Food Bank.

Homeless

Animals Need Our Help!

And again I say-We have amazing students

and staff at this school! This last month the stu-dents in Mr. Wendt’s 3rd grade class and Mrs. McLachlan’s 3rd/4th grade class did a reading unit on the book: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. They studied about “hobo” animals and learned that “hobo” usually means that someone travels from place to place. Well, our local animal shelter and the Helping Hands people who rescue animals are seeing a rise of animals coming into their care. The needs for more food and animal toys and collars and leashes were becoming more in need. Therefore, the class thought it would be cool to have a competition and have the whole school participate to see which class brought in the most supplies and food by No-vember 26th and the winning class would earn a class celebration from Mr. Wendt’s & Mrs. McLach-lan’s classes! The class that won was Mrs. Strasser’s 2nd grade class! They had a Root beer Float Party on Thursday the 29th given by the other 2 classes! The overall amount of food brought was well over 100 pounds plus all the animal toys! Former Grantham Booster President, Cathy Carlson and Anna Estrada, both from Helping Hands, brought with them a cou-ple of little friends to visit when they picked up the food! Arnie the wobbly dog and Stewart B. Little the miniature black panther! They had a really great time and thank all for the great amount of dona-tions and those involved! WoooHooo!!!

P A G E 5 V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 3

DECEMBER 1ST— 8am to 11am

Grantham Boosters.

We do a lot of fundraising for your kids, and our com-munity here at Grantham Elementary and we take family seriously! We want the best for everyone. The Grantham Boosters ask for your help in the collection of Box Tops and Aluminum cans! Mrs. Heath is the collector of the cans & classrooms have a competition on the Box Top Collections! We have Worlds Finest Chocolate Candy sales winding up right now. Thank you for shop-ping at the Book Fair it was a great success. The book sales profit from it help buy Scholastic books for the library and the librarian was able to give away over $250.00 in book prizes! The games and meals you participate in, help your kids with things like playground equipment or 5th grade boat trip, 6th grade rock climbing, science trips, Award nights and many other fun things that support our kids. In December we have the Santa Breakfast– Dec 1st, then the Quarter Sale, which is for the kids to give gifts to families! We help with the Awards Nights and STEAM Nite in January. In the Spring- Book Fair/Dr. Seuss Night and the Easter Chocolate sales. In April Awards Night and in May, the BOGO Book Fair and Carnival Night, the Walk-a-thon, in which the kids raise money to give back to veterans and in June we have a gym Rummage Sale the week after school is out! So if you find yourself with nothing to do and want to volunteer your time, talents or other, let the Grantham Boosters know. We have usually 2 monthly meetings on Mondays at 6pm. So be sure to check the back page for our meeting dates! And if you would like to receive the booster minutes on what we are doing let me know! I will put you on the email address list! If you have any Questions contact the school! Don Lee, Principal Donna Burnett– Booster President Tami Heath-Event coordinator Dani Layes, Booster Secretary

By Ali K. These kids were PAX Leaders this month! Yeah! Give’m a Popsicle!

Nov. 2 Anna Kayelee Addison Marius Braeden Myiah Parker Hazel Tevyn Carley Josh Lee Anna P.

Nov. 9 Thanas Myrissa Ivory Reece Spencer Abbey Aubrey Addison Cadance Hailey Aryanna Myria Ryan Keegan Francesca Kobey

Nov. 16 Brynlee Emmalee Jace Caleb Reece Anna Jonathen Oliver Lil’K Joshua Daniel Neveah Greycen Haiden Chole Aryeonna

Balto of the Blue Dawn written by Mary Pope Osborne

This is a Magic Tree House book #54 – a Merlin Series. It is

a winter book. The level is 3.9 and if you want it and if it is

in your reading level you could check it out of the library

if it’s ok with your teacher. The book is about a race on

snow and dogs pull the sled while the person says,

“MUSH!” to get them going! The book is a chapter book

and it has pictures in the book. The race is

called The Iditarod Race. Another name

for the race is: The Great Serum Race

of 1925.

I hope you have a great time reading about Jack and Annie on their adventure in this book! Brrrrr it’s getting cold out! Go get your mukluks on! This is Sophia signing off! Bye! SR

P A G E 6 V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 3 Book Review

By: Sophia R.

By Jetta J. We have a new instrument in our music

room! It’s ukuleles! Our music teacher will be teaching the students how to

play them! There are 20 of them! Our choir and the Marimba Band are

getting ready for a concert soon. Marimbas are playing in the Christmas

Parade! Here are some pictures of us practicing!

Choir &Marimba

We are

a

Title I

School!

Hi, this is Hazel telling you about the OZOBOTS! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! The Asotin County Library

brought Ozobots to our classroom, Mrs. Hockings class,

but Mrs. Strickler was subbing for her at the time. Each

of us was supplied with an Ozobot, color marker pens

and paper that had the codes on it. The Ozobots follow

a black line and if you put certain colors like tally marks

within the line, it will do something. Like red, green, red

- it will go as slow as a snail. Therefore, the lines that

the Ozobots follow are a code. We in 4th grade and are

excited about learning code.

Yay! Here is some pitchers of

us working with the Ozobots.

I hope you like them. Hey,

this is Hazel signing off for

now, got some coding to do!

Byyyyyyyeeeeeeee!

P A G E 7 V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 3 Ozobots! By Hazel A.

“The Clarkston School District will provide equal educational opportunity and treatment for all students in all aspects of the academic

and activities program without discrimination based on race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veter-

an or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, marital status, the presence of any sensory, mental, or

physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability. The district will provide equal ac-

cess to school facilities to the Boy Scouts of America and all other designated youth groups listed in Title 36 of the United States

Code as a patriotic society.”

The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:

Title IX Coordinator, Jim Fry Section 504/ADA Coordinator, Rebecca Lockhart

Assistant Superintendent Executive Director of Student Services

1294 Chestnut St., Clarkston, WA 99403 1294 Chestnut St., Clarkston, WA 99403

(509) 758-2531; [email protected] (509) 758-2531; [email protected]

Calendar By Juliana K. & Angela D.

1st - Santa Breakfast 8-11am

1st - Marimba performance X-mas Parade-

4:30pm line-up! “Holly Jolly Christmas”!

3rd Candy bar sale –Almost over!

7th Pearl Harbor Remembrance

13th X-mas\Winter Concert -

Band\Marimba\Chorus concert in gym 6-8pm

16th Quarter Sale set up

17th& 18th Quarter Sale

17th Marimbas perform @ Guardian Angel-12 noon

18th Marimbas @ Cascadia- 6:30pm

19th Quarter Sale for Parents & kids who did not

get to shop yet. 8am-Noon

Only!

20th Early Release 12 noon

21st -Jan 2nd Winter Break!

21st Winter begins

22nd Full moon

24th X-mas Eve

25th CHRISTMAS!!!

26th Kwanza and Boxing Day!

31st NEW YEARS EVE!

Jan. 1st Happy New 2019!

1253 Poplar Street Clarkston, WA 99403

Next Booster Meeting: January 7, 2019

Mondays - 6:00pm - Library Boosters E-mail:

[email protected] We can do TEXT

reminders! Contact us!

We’re on the web!

http://ges.csdk12.or

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Parents, Need help with anything?

Contact:

Rhonda Wells

Parent Coordinator